Using Credit Subsidies to Counteract a Credit Bust: Evidence From Serbia

December 1, 2011

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Jiri Podpiera. Using Credit Subsidies to Counteract a Credit Bust: Evidence From Serbia, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

Emerging markets are particularly vulnerable to boom-bust credit cycles, due to excessive capital flows, shallow equity markets, and companies' high leverage and open FX positions. While the policy debate on how to respond to boom-bust credit cycles remains unsettled, it has been conjectured that credit subsidies may provide a particularly effective policy tool to counter a credit bust. This paper reports on a rare policy experiment where credit subsidies were used to buffer the impact of the global financial crisis on Serbia in 2009. Model simulations suggest that credit subsidies in Serbia helped to mitigate the slump in output.

Subject: Credit, Currencies, Exchange rates, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Foreign exchange, Government subsidies, Loans, Money

Keywords: Beneficiary company, Cash flows, Company, Countercyclical Policy, Credit, Credit Subsidy, Currencies, Exchange rates, Financial Accelerator, Forces company, Global, Government subsidies, Impacts companies' cash flows, Loans, Number of company, Overleveraged company, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

21
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2011/285
Stock No:

WPIEA2011285
ISBN:

9781463927196
ISSN:

1018-5941

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